On This Day – 18 March

1712 – the first performance of Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater

1902 – the first performance of Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op.4

Born OTD in 1657 Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni

Born OTD in 1842 Stéphane Mallarmé

Born OTD in 1844 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Born OTD in 1893 Wilfred Owen

Born OTD in 1953 Takashi Yoshimatsu